The games people play vary by country: Australians like non-casino gaming machines, while Singaporeans favor casinos and lotteries. Finns, Danes and the Irish favor interactive gambling—done online, through the TV, or on a mobile phone—over other forms, according to a chart attached to the story.

China is rising in the ranks—it went from being the tenth-biggest gambling market to the second, though no data is available on how much Chinese themselves actually lose. The biggest overall market is still the United States, where gamblers lost a total of $119 billion—about a quarter of the global total.